Vault Cache in Enterprise Vault 8 and above uses the BITS protocol to download content for the cache. In some environments people may wish to throttle this traffic. To be honest it’s a bandwidth and utilisation aware protocol, so why people want to do this is beyond me.. but some people do.

The call sometimes comes to Support that Vault Cache downloads appear to be incredibly slow… and the culprit in some cases is this bandwidth limiting. You do it as follows :